WordPress now has a core dev environment toolkit. It is a desktop app available on Mac, Windows, or Linux and comes with everything needed to work on core. Details and some video demos on the make blog.

Themify has added CSS variables support for their builder and to the Customizer to allow for global style options.

Matt Mullenweg reflects and is unhappy with how things are being run in the project.

Bad actors purchased popular plugins hosted on WordPress.org and added malware that was downloaded to users sites.

Here is a look at the design system aspects of the Mosaic builder.

The 4.1.0 version is available to lifetime license holders and includes all of the features except for the remote scan option. I’m happy to see the team support lifetime license holders. You can download it from your account dashboard.

This version also adds the ability to clean post types, as well as several new database insight and optimization options.

The latest version of Bricks was released. It includes bug fixes and minor improvements.

This is an discussion with the folks from the WP Product Talk podcast with the EmDash team. They get some good clarification about the product and how it is like and different from WordPress.

The Admin Bar released the results of their 2026 survey of agency owners and freelancers. There are a number of interesting findings. For example, 58.3% are using page builders, 27.8% are using block collections, and 9.7% are using default Gutenberg FSE.